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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
He Tackled n Buzz Saw

Romney lntelligencer.
When Senator Flournny virtually
charged in his speech ON the floor OF
the State Senate that three-fourths
of the newspapers of the State
were bought he did the editors an
injustice which he will repent of.
There were on the floors of the leg
islature thirty-nine Legislators who
were in favor of Camden for Senator,
not one of whom did he charge with
being bought. They were there to
defend themselves, but the news
papers were not. We more deeply
regret our Senator's remarks in this
respect than his opposition to the
caucus. Time might wear out the
one; but our hopes for larger po-
litical sphere for our friend are
blasted because he has falsely charg.
ed the newspaper fraternity with
being bought, and he will never be
forgotten by "the boys"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

On last Saturday. while at work
on the high cut just above Tray
Run, mongolia county, Peter
Burke, son of Walter Burke, the
Waterman at that place, missed his
footing, or somehow took wrong
step, and fell over the cliff, receiy.
ing fatal injuries.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The Electoral count bill and the
Inter State Commerce bill have
both been signed by the President
and are now laws of the land.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

At the Directors meeting of the
Hospital at Weston last week, that
body had the asylum and all the
buildings connected thereto insur-
ed for the sum of s125, 600.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

Our Motto: is down with the trai
tors in the party wherever you find
them. They have no right to the
confidence and support of true and
loyaI Democrats.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
To Trcspassers.

A LII persons are herehx forbidden To
a trespass upon my lands in Robinson
District, IN any manner whatsoever.
wlthoutmy permission Those who via.
late this notice viii be prosecuted to he
full extent of the law.
RoBE SoMERyIELR.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

Friday morning Miss Carrie
Brown, daughter of Hon. John ].
Brown, of Morgantown, President
of the Merchants National Bank,
was found suspended by piece OF
muslin on the back porch of her
fathers residence. 1t is thought
that unpleasant family CIRCUMCISION
ces were the cause of the sad deed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

Marion county boasts of Mrs
Mary Grow, who asserts that she is
Ill years old; and she is renewing
her youth too, for it is reported that
her hair. for many years as white
as snow, is turning black again.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The streets of our town should
have the mud scraped from them
and good bed of gravel spread on.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The town election is drawing
quite close and it is time the tick
cts were being named.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
They.Love the Golored Man.

4
They Love the COlored Man.
The Senate's rejection, says an
exchange, of the colored man Mat
thews as Recorder of Deeds for the
District of Columbia, was sent to
the President on Tuesday of last
week. Poor Matthewsl IL isn't
! his fault that he is black and has
a mind of his own. But it is his
misfortune so far as the present of.
fee is concerned. If he had been
content to carry Republican loads,
blow the Republican horn and help
run the Republican machine, he
would have been we'll favored in
the sight of Republican Senators.
But he was a Democrat. This
leads a prominent colored man to
say: s'Any party that attempts to
chastise man in this country for
exercising his franchise as suits
himself has outliyed the purposes
for which it was organized :.
Defeat or the ProhibItory
Amendment.
Morganfow n Domination: The de-
feat of prohibition in the Legisla-
ture. is no real back set to the tenn
perance case.
The fight for the prohibitory
amendment was a useless, impolitic
hight,
We say this as friend of the
temperance cause and an advocate
for the submission of the amend
ment. T.
Because of the importunate de-
mand for vote on the amendment,
and since the matter was before
the Legislature, we desire to see ii
subsmitted.
But we say now again, as we
have repeatedly said. that the pas.
sage or defeat of the measure in the
Legislature was of no importance
to the. cause of temperance in West
Virginia.
Why2
Simply because we have already
a provision in the present Consti.
tuition which gives the Legislature
full power to prohibit Intoxicating
liquors, Whenever it may choose SO
to enact.
The temperance people don't
seem to know this.
But it is there all the same.
Some temperance reformers, so
called, are always spelling for a
fight. They must fight for. pro-
hibitory amendment, although it
would be perfectly harmless APP
pendage to the Constitution until
the Legislature took steps to en-
force it. Even were the proposed
amendment now in the constitu-
ton there would have to he fight
for the Legislature necessary toiput
it in operation. Why not make
the fight directly with the Legisla-
ture for the prohibitory legislation
mo,oa If Temperance Reformers
want to prohibit they need no more
constitutional authority or amend
ments than already exist. Let
them ask the Legislature to pro-
hibit, and quit beating the air with
appeals for more amendments.
The useless fighting for no profit
is the worst backset in the whole
business. 1t demoralizes the whole
temperance army to no purpose.
The truth is that the local option
law of West Virginia is now doing
all that law can do for the abolition
of liquors.
Let temperance people concen-
trate their efforts along this line.
He Tackled n Buzz Saw.
Romney 1ntelligencer.
When Senator Flournny virtually
charged in his speech ON the floor of
the State Senate that three-fourths
of the newspapers of the State
were bought he did the editors an
injustice which he will repent of.
Thoro tuara IN tho H,orc of tho lar
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The legislatures Of West Virginia
and new Jersey are still voting a.
way for United States Senators,
and perhaps they may get through
in time for the next Congress.
Camden still leads in West Virgin
Ia, and considering what he has
done for that States progress, we
think his friends ought to stick to
him.-Middleport Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The above sale is postponeduntil Sat
nrday, the 4th day OF March, 1887, at
the same place and between the same
hours. H. R..HOWARD,
Ieo y 4w- Trustee
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

There are indications of immense
Of oil and natural gas in
the vicinity of Roanoke, va.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The u. S. Senate passed the
House bill on the 9TH. granting to
the K. & O. R'y the right to lay its
track through U. S. lock and dam
property in the Kanawha Valley.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

Two years hence Dan Lucas or
some of his gang of traitors will be
bidding fur Democratic votes in a
Democratic Convention, but nary a
.crumb viii they get.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

A few years ago almost every far
mer in this county had flock OF
sheep, but now one is seldom seen,
Our hills are well adapted to grass
growing and sheep raising, and
nothing would be more profitable,
but for the dogs. When the farm
ers quit timbering and begin to
SOW grass seed, kill off the dogs and
go to raising sheep and cattle
money will become flush and bus
mess will open up in Wayne
countY.-Er.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

Parkersburg. having Just been
swept by measles is now suffering
from an epidemic wave of scarlet
fever.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

IF those boiling Democrats think
there is no hereafter let them keep
ON.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The above sale is postponed until
Monday, the 9TH OF February. 1857. al.
the same place and betBssss the same
hours; II. r. HOWARD,
r. Jan D Nv. Trustsae4
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

That staunch Democratic journ
al, the Richmond State, strikes from
the shoulder when 1t says: ut is
very tiresome and very unprotis-
able to discuss the proper interpres
tation of Democratic principles
with those who, though they may
assume ur wear by chance the name
of Democrat, never had he fainte It
conception of what Democracy
means, and were never moved in
all their lives by he slightest touch
of Democratic spirit. Accidental
and circumstantial Democrats are
more injurious to the party than
open foes. Men who have no high
er idea of their duty as citizens
than to drift whithersoever their
fears may lead are trammel to any
party. They are useless and burd-
ensome rubbish"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The Clarksburg News wants a
statue of Stonewall Jackson placed
in front of the new court house of
Harrison county.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

After the Senator is elected, the
kicking Democrats will wish they
hadn't.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The marriage business is boom
ing, so.says tie county clerk.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

Our public schools close next
month.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
FOR SALE.

STORE House-24 feet by so feet, with
~ ware room II feetslkidIe full length OF
store Let 66 feet front and. sci feet
deep, on 9th street fronting Court House
yard Good business location.
January 10th, 49, lEM. SMITH.
ysln- l1z.-4T.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
Mason county borders on the

Mason county borders on the
Ohio river, ard lies around the
Kanawha. II would be supposed
that It's citizens were educated
above the average West Yirginiaii,
and its close proximity to the State
of Ohio would be a guarantee of
culture and refinement. But alas
IL appears To be exactly the REVERSE
Last Tuesday night man brake
into church, not far from Point
Pleasant and stole a bible. He
may not have gotten what he was
after, but IL is a patent fact that
he got what he most needed. We
will nDl direct the attention of the
Missionary societies to new field
in that. county, for fear that the
soul of some heather in Africa may
be saved by ignorance, when it
could have been lost by the knowl-
edge civilization brings. Meth
er will we cast an unjust reflection
upon the populace of the county,
for we are almost assured that the
individual who committed the sac
rilege, did so-because he was not a
subscriber of Brother Tippett Reg
lister. Brother Tippett You must
send that inyiduaI paper when
you can learn his address. Char
lesion Star.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

A printer stood at the desk of a
business man the other day, and
noticed him using letter and bill
heads bought in Cincinnati. Said
the printer, who was a customer,
"What would you think of me if
should go to Cincinnati and buy
your line of goods for myself and
family2" l would think you fool,
when know you can get the same
goods as cheap from me and aid a
called his attention to the import
ed letter and bill heads, the mer
chant conghed and walked behind
the counter to wait on a customer.
And the same merchant just a few
days before asked the printer to
give him a free puff about his big
stock of new goods.-Hunt. Repu6
ticG1e.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
CAPITAL PRIZE, $50, 900
R6s@ Notice. Tickets are Ten Dol.
lars ONLY. Halces, So. Ftftl.s.
So. LTenths, 81 Ia
LIST OF PRIz1s

-rI9V I4FE' llOUllIIlg tO-''''-'''7 J'OOV
Application for rates to clubs should
be made only to to the office Of the Come
pany in New Orleans.
For further inforTnation wrise clearly,
giving fun address. POSTAL
NOTES, Express Money Orders, or
New York Exchange in ordinary let
ten. Currency by Express lat our ex-
pense) addressed
NJ. A. DAUPHN,
New Orleans, La.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
LoTTERY.
CAPITAL PRIZE. sl5o. oot

ave do hereby certifg tll,at ne supervise he
~, - ne
1nnstdI Dnaluiags Of The Louisiana Sote
Lottery Company, and IN person lllaaage and
control TIC Drdarings themselves, aud that The
same are coadacied irith hOslests. fairness.
and IN good faith foirprd all pqrfits, and zee
aiiflor5Se he Company to use diis certificate,
nth fdc-similss ri orr signatures attached,
IN It's advertisements. y
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
Unprecedented Attraction I
OVER HALF MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
Louisiana Stale Lottery Company,

Incorporated in 1865 for % years by
the Legislature for Educational and
Charitable purposes-with capital of
81, 000, OO0-to which reserve fund of
over $3.50, 600 has since been added.
BY an overwhelming popular vote its
franchise was made part of the present
State constitution adopted December I'd,
A. D., 1879.
The only Lottery eUer rotef and endorsed By
the people Of any STATE.
II acpcr scales or posip0Nes.
Its Grand single Namber Drauings take
place monthly, and the Semi-An nuaB
Drawings regularly every SIX months (Junc
and Deee1nber.N
4 splendid OPPORTUNITY TO WIN FOR
TUNE, SECOND GRAND DRAWING, GLASS
e, IN THE, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW OR
LEANS TUESDAY. MARCH 18th, fSS5-2Osnd
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

The Senate has passed bill ap
propriating s21, 100000 for coast
defense. The Senate will perhaps
yet learn that the surplus is good
thing to have on hand; and that to
curtail Misrepresentation bycutting
down war taxes, would be wiser
than to take the money out of the
pockets of the entire people of the
government and spend it in certain
localities. The people will get
tired some day of being taxed to
death for the benefit of few of
their number. Let US keep the
present surplus to be used in case
of necessity; and stop its futher
swelling by leaving the money
where it belongs-in the pockets
of the people.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
or M. ~ DABPHKN,
Washington, d. c.
Address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL. BANK
New orleans. La.

REMEMBER g s: b gss;sss:i ffe ssd
Early, who in charge Of the Drawings. is a
guarantee Of absolute fairness and integrity THAR
the chances ali epilsl and dTat 10 cse can pos
Sibiy divine Whit numbers will draw Prize. AIS
parties therefore advertising 20 guarantee Prizes m
this Lottery, or holding any other impossible in
ducemcnts sygiudlers, only aim TO, deceive
and dcfTand the lnwary.
feb. o-4~-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16
Paying BaeIs the stale War

A bill has passed the United
States Senate, With but one dissent
ing voice, to repay the States and
Territories the amounted direct war
tax the Government collected from
them under the Act of 1851 There
Iistlfttle doubt that the bill will pass
the House and viii become law.
The sum required to meet the re-
quirements of the bill viii be about
S13, 100000. II will be paid direct
to the Governors of the States
ALI the Northern States will re,
ceiye portion of this, but none Of
the Southern. States except Della
ware, West Virginia, Missouri and
Kentucky will be entitled to any
thing, as they were in Rebellion
and of course did not respond with
their quotas, that is they didn't
raise sums of money to help get
themselves whipped.
There is justice in this measure.
It viii make all the expenses of the
war fall on the entire people in
stead of a part of it falling upon
the States that were. loyal Il is
right that South Carolina that took
up arms against the Union should
pay her proportion along with
West Virginia, that stood by the
Union. =.
There is a kind of poetic justice
IN the measure. This is the way
Senator George, of Mississippi,
phiIosophises from Southern
tatandpoint: "There is some sort Of
equity, suppose, in the idea that
as these Northern States paid their
money to whip us. fellows down
there, and We did not pay our share
share of the cost of the whipping,
now after the whipping is all over
we ought to return to them the
money which they paid for whip
ping u.s."
West Virginia's portion viii not
be large compared with the more
rich and populous States. But it
will mount up in the thousands,
and will not come amiss to our peo-
pie Wheeiing Register.
/
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-16

James H Couch, Jr., Co1nssi.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-07
"MOnts de Pieteo of Paris.

There is no such thing as private pawn
brokers' shops in Paris. They were long ago
suppressed as detrimental to the public veal
The pawn shops are public offices, called
"Monts de Piete" They originated in re-
ligious movement Their founder was an
Italian friar, who, in tho middle of the fiji.
tenth century, Numbered against the usuri-
Gus practices of the Jews-the plague OF
Italy at that epoch-and collected money to
establish charitable bank to make loans at
a low rate of interest on articles deposited as
security. The Italian name for these instit,l-
tions was al Monte di Pieta"-the mountain
of plty-but the French, in borrowing the
name, converted pity into piety.
They spread all over Italy, and the system
found q Jealous advocate in Leo X in its bat
tie against Shylock. The first Mont dc Piete
in France was founded in Avignon in 1871
Paris did not adopt the system until 1777,
when Louis XIV established the Grand Mont
dc Piete, which is still In existence in the Rue
dcs Blancs- Manteaux. The institution was
suppressed at the French revolution, but
large number of private pawnshops then
sprang up, and had to be abolished, and the
old plan substituted. They arc administered
by councils presided over by tho mayors of
tho communes in which they havo been cs-
tablished. In Paris tho project of the Seine
is tho president. The rate OF interest is fixed
by law at per cent, but to'dcfray expenses
another 4 per cent. is added, making tho &c
tual rate per cent
Pledges which are not redeemed at the end
of u year are sold at auction, and all that is
realized by tho sale above claims Is given TO
tue hospitals if no one has called for it at the
expiration of three years. There are only
three Monts do Piote in Paris the central and
two branch establishments, but there IRE
numerous authorized agents who have Offices
for the receiving Of pledges. Boston Globe
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-07
PHYSICIANS HAVE rouNo ONT

That communicating and foreign element in
the blood. developed by indigestion. is the cause
OF rheumatism. This settles upon the sensitive
sub-cutaneous covering of the muscles and lig-
aments OF the joints, causing constant and
shifting pain. and aggregating as calcareous
chalky deposit which produces stiffness and
distortion OF the joints. No fact which expe
rience has demonstrated in regard to Hostel
ters Stomach Bitters has stronger evidence to
support than this namely. that this medicine
or comprehensive uses checks the formidable
and atrocious disease. nor is it less positively
established that ills preferable to the poison
often used TO arrest it, since the medicine con
taias only salutary Ingredients. 1t is also a
signal remedy for malarial fevers. constipation,
dyspepsia kidney and bladder ailments. dcbil-
ity and other disorders. SEQ that YOU yet the
genuine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-07
From Barbarism to Civilization.

Some twenty-five years ago photographer
of Chicago, being in Arizona on a vacation
trip, found and rescued from On Apache
camp an abandoned Indian male infant OF
full blood Tho abandonment would seem tc
have implied no very promising origin of the
child i'll his own tribe; but tho Photographer
became possessed with a desire to take tho boy
home with him and adopt him. In spite OF
warnings that tho child would provo a viper
in his bosom, he carried out his intention, and
reared tho boy, to whom the name of Charles
own family. Tho young Apache grew up to
be in face and physique tho very typo of bis
tribe; but he was at the Same time an excel
lent scholar and n perfect gentleman. He
graduated ut tho Chicago High school with
credit, and was very popular in his class,
being gentle, polite and Industrious.
A recent inquiry as to Montezuma's career
since tho completion of his high school educa-
ton developed tho facts that he has selected
surgery for q profession. and will graduate
from tho Chicago Medical college next sum-
mer far above tho average of his class; that
he is liked by his classmates, and has never
manifested any desire to resume the barbar-
GUS habits of his relatives, or shown any
savage traits whatever; that he supports
himself, during his studies at tho medical
college, by filling prescriptions at Chicago
drug store, where ho Is looked upon as an
expert pharmacist, and that every circum-
stance indicates that he will make success
full professional man.-Doston Transcript.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-07

Only very brief and superficial acquaint-
ance with Salt Lake City is required to dis
cover that Brigham Young was a very able
man and possessed remarkable qualities as q
leader Salt Lake City was originally laid
out by him in squares or blocks of ten acres
each, the points true to the points of the
compass, and crossing at right angles The
streets were wide-130 feet--and from Emf
grafton canon tho supply of water was
brought down, distributed through roadside
cutters on both sides of every street, and
forming irrigating canals which enabled
every resident to cultivate his plot of ground
and make of the barren waste garden. In
the distribution of the land every pioneer
resident was given an acre and a quarter for
town house and garden and as much land
outside as he was willing to improve-that is,
irrigate and cultivate. Children wero a
source of revenue in those days; perhaps that
and the necessity for caring for unprotected
women were, as claimed, the reasons for the
beginning Of the horrible blat of polygamy
u.,on this singular land, SO fun of all manner
OF fair possibilities Jennie june liz Demo-
t~So 1Aousuiys -<---